Sacrifices to Demons Happening in 2024

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

John 6:54-55

Yeshua, commonly known as Jesus in English, told His followers some hard things that caused many to walk away. Eating His flesh and drinking His blood would seem like a weird thing to hear from a speaker. Many just didn’t stick around long enough to understand.

John 6:60–66 (LEB): ⁶⁰ Thus many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This saying is hard! Who can understand it?” ⁶¹ But Jesus, because he knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? ⁶² Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? ⁶³ The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵ And he said, “Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father.” ⁶⁶ For this reason many of his disciples drew back and were not walking with him any longer.

Drinking Messiah’s blood and eating His flesh is a spiritual matter. He is the Word of Yahweh and manna from Heaven. His blood is that of the new covenant, or the refreshing of the covenant as Peter tells us.

Acts 3:19–21 (LEB): ¹⁹ Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out, ²⁰ so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ appointed for you—Jesus, ²¹ whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times.

Many think that we are fully engaged in the new covenant right now. When the author of Hebrews quotes Jeremiah concerning the new covenant, it makes me wonder if we are not fully there yet. Are we perhaps in a process? It is clear that His laws are not written on the majority of people’s hearts today. Most Christians hate God’s laws by their actions and words, so how could these same laws be written on their hearts?

Hebrews 8:6–13 (LEB): ⁶ But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises. ⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second. ⁸ For in finding fault with them he says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, ⁹ not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took hold of them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹¹ And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. ¹² For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins any longer.” ¹³ In calling it new, he has declared the former to be old. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.

The old covenant is growing old and ready to disappear. Hebrews 8:11, “And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest”. Do we still have to teach your neighbors about the Lord? Does everyone know Him? It does not appear to be so. We are in the refreshing as Peter told us. Once the Messiah comes back and establishes His kingdom, all of His laws will be written on our hearts and everyone will clearly know who He is.

Revelation 3:2–3 (LEB):² Be on the alert and strengthen the remaining things that are about to die, for I have not found your works completed before my God. ³ Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe it, and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.

If eating His flesh and drinking His blood is spiritual, not literal, then what does that say for eating meat sacrificed to idols? Would that not be equally spiritual?

1 Corinthians 10:13–22 (LEB): ¹³ Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.¹⁴ Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. ¹⁵ I am speaking as to sensible people; you judge what I am saying. ¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread. ¹⁸ Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? ¹⁹ Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. ²¹ You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?

Paul knew that the pagan deities were place holders for demons. All of their symbology is polluted by demons. Therefore, to abstain from things polluted by idols was one of the first commandments new converts were shown.

Acts 15:19–21 (LEB): ¹⁹ Therefore I conclude we should not cause difficulty for those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, ²⁰ but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood. ²¹ For Moses has those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, because he* is read aloud in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

We know that the gentiles, or non-Jews, concerned themselves with the signs in heaven, such as the winter solstice and waiting for the spring equinox. Many cultures brought fir trees and evergreens into their house as a sign of fertility.

Jeremiah 10:1–4 (LEB): Hear the word that Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel. ² Thus says Yahweh: “You must not learn the way of the nations, and you must not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by them. ³ For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, for it is a tree cut down from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool. ⁴ He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger.

The fir trees will even rejoice once Babylon is defeated. Imagine trees rejoicing because no one is cutting them down for idolatrous purposes any more.

Isaiah 14:3–8 (KJV 1900): ³ And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, ⁴ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ⁵  The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. ⁶  He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. ⁷  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. ⁸  Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

“Meat sacrificed to idols” is not limited to eating actual meat that was sacrificed in first century temples of Diana or Zeus. These ancient deities are still with us today in our customs and traditions. Christians, without question, use the symbology of these ancient deities, sometimes boasting about their usage, in their special holy days handed down through tradition. Yet Paul told us in the first century to specifically not do this, repeating the commandment given to Moses from the One whom we as Christians claim to be worshipping.

Deuteronomy 12:29–32 (LEB): ²⁹ “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, ³⁰ take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’ ³¹ You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods. ³² All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

Paul tells us we are “sharers with demons” and God told Moses to absolutely not use symbols or traditions from other cultures to serve Him. Despite these warnings, Christianity uses all of the traditions and symbols they can find to bring into the supposed worship of God. The question becomes ” which God are you worshipping?”. If the one true God of Israel says not to use these items to worship Him, then we can assume He does not count these traditions and symbols as worship towards Him at the very least (vain worship), and the worst case scenario is that He abhors it and turns His back on people that practice these things in His name? Paul simply says it is partaking at the table with demons.

Many Christians will use the excuse that they are “not under the law” to justify the use of symbols of Nordic witchcraft to the god Odin, or the sun worship of the god Mithras. Which god is being worshipped in all of these traditions? Law or no law, the Creator of the Universe weighed in on His thoughts of these practices. Do we want to temp God and use grace as a cover? It is a dangerous road to be walking.

The result of syncretizing the symbols, traditions or “meat” of gods of other’s is described in Revelation. One has to understand the sins of Jezebel and Ahab, and Balak and Balaam to fully see the repercussions of partaking at the table with demons. Often Christians will wonder why they are having a hard time in life without even considering which gods they are paying homage to and that they open the door to demons.

Revelation 2:14–16 (LEB): ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. ¹⁵ So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth.

These words should be troubling to the “no commandment”, or antinomian crowd. “Repent or else”, “throwing people in a sick bed”, “killing their children with deadly diseases” and “I will give to each one of you according to your deeds”, seems to contradict the hyper grace message of the modern church. It sounds more like the curses for disobedience listed in Leviticus chapter twenty-six. If we are observant, this is exactly what is happening and it is caused by ignoring God’s covenant.

Revelation 2:20–23 (LEB): ²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹ And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I am throwing her into a sickbed and those who committed adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent from her deeds. ²³ And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Balaam showed Balaak that he could defeat Israel by luring them into their fertility rituals and therefore cursing themselves. Jezebel used Ahab to promote Baal worship. Baal is still being worshipped today in Christianity. The “law” that Christians despise has nothing to do with any of this other than it told us not to do it. Even if the antinomian doctrine were true, it would still be hard to justify using symbols and traditions of other gods in the worship of the one true Elohim of Israel in light of all these scriptures.

Paul also warns the Galatians not to turn back to their former pagan practices. The Galatians were caught between a sect of Jews that insisted on circumcision to be saved, and a government that mandated the celebration of the festivals of the gods of their culture. Christians today try to make these verses about celebrating the Sabbath and God’s feast days, but that really is nonsense when we consider the whole of scripture.

Galatians 4:8–11 (LEB): ⁸ But at that time when you did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now, because you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? ¹⁰ You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

The best way to understand these things is to learn the nature of God by studying His words. There is work involved to learn enough history to understand what is actually being told to us in the scriptures. When Jesus came, he told us he only said what he heard the Father say and only did what he saw the Father doing. Jesus had no new agenda to change anything, only to free us from the curse of death we inherited from breaking God’s laws. Should we continue breaking God’s laws, which is sinning, simply because Jesus freed us from the curse of breaking the law? Romans 6:16 (LEB): ¹⁶ Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or obedience, leading to righteousness?

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